Minotaur finds a Mirror
Minotaur finds a Mirror
by Scott Wilkerson
Meeting myself was like ghosting some past
beyond the limits of desire in here.
You looked to me as I have looked for light
or its splintered shards pulling me through dark.
I dreamed once that visitors had to sign
in to be recorded as fully dead,
which I confess did seem right at the time,
given all the murderous deepenings
and heroic postulates one might eat;
even my sonnets are incomplete.
In that sense, too, I have been a kind of dreamer,
wondering if father Minos ever notices the sun.
-refers from the word mirror in Ellen Kline McLeod’s poem Her Bag of Bits
3 Responses “Minotaur finds a Mirror” →
Debbie
August 17, 2011
“Heroic postulates one might eat” . . . so good! And the ending is wonderful too! Thank you, Scott!
Dan Elman (@leapingoutvwatr)
August 18, 2011
loving the twists and turns of this one
Nicky Yurcaba
August 20, 2011
Love the lines “I dreamed once that visitors had to sign/in to be recorded as fully dead”. Beautifully haunting…